Hard to believe it is already 2009. It seems like 2008 just flew by. I closed out the year yesterday with an early morning ride on my road bike using the My Tach GPS Cyclocomputer/Training device that I am currently trying out. I will talk more about it in a future post, but for now I will just say that it was pretty cool to be able to download the data and see my ride mapped out in Google Earth. After the ride, I had to get back to work on installing wood flooring in my house. That is what I have been doing all week and today will be no exception, so I had better get on with this post. To start out the year, I am going to pass along a few links that I bookmarked over the holidays, so here they are:

Pictured here is a 36 inch wheeled mountain bike from Black Sheep Cycles. There is nothing like a 36er to make a 29er look like a small wheeled bike.

Bike Radar had a good article recently about form vs. function in the world of bicycle design. It features quotes from a “few industry players/designers” in response to the question “Is form becoming more important than function these days?”

Miche has actually had a more affordable and more easily used quick change cog system for awhile now. I don’t know when they came out with it, but I’ve seen it for sale at Harris Cyclery for at least a year. http://sheldonbrown.com/harris/fixed-sprockets.htmlAs pretty as the White industries parts look, theres no sense in making more things more proprietary.